音時雨 ~Regentropfen~

♢ 『階段下りたら上の階』=>Möbius!

Eventually, I delayed it for nearly a month, or 26 days if calculating exactly.
Shall I feel good since it's not a 5-month delay? (・∀・;)
In spite of being late, I shall give a review, from the beginning sketch to the ending light-shadow playing.
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[Jul-21]
Suddenly I wanted to listen to songs by Shikata Akiko (the hiragana personality), and thus I pulled out the one cue that I hadn't played for quite a while.
⇨ "laylania". Following my initial plan, I didn't play the entire CD. Instead, I nature desire led me to double-click onto track 3 without a half second of hesitation. Although that was true that I didn't expect I could give the whole evening exclusively to that song. As I myself didn't expect at all that my fingers went crazy to reflect my "mindsphere", being activated by those exotic waves.
"I shall make it for my girl's 10th birthday!"
[Jul-23]
Things were going perfect. I mean, everything besides the character shadowing and background was finished within the single day. Still a big pile left though.
[Jul-24~Aug-4]
Getting lost in the world of SLG and/or RPG. When I was suddenly brought back there was one day left (in the perfect case).
[Aug-5~6]
I worked hard for it (although it wasn't finished). I've made it to the end of base colouring, so this was actually a pretty memoir for this special day. However, I hurt (very, very mildly) my right shoulder so I couldn't put a full force onto it.
[???]
I can't remember when the exact that day was, but I was almost there. With some final shadowing and a title remained.
[Aug-31]
After another a few hours (that I originally expected a much shorter span), I now only needed a title.
[Sep-1]
The title was decided, and my hunch is my German fails.
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As I intented to make it a birthday gift, there's no doubt on my choose of characters, as well as the "guest". I tried to depict a "doya-gao", but seemed it didn't work out like I expected. ← Not really a big deal.
Also, since the indirect inspiration was from that Akiko (hiragana ver) song, nothing would be better than a "library". A library in a crazy and fantastic world, so that I came to the motif "Möbius" soon, which I made it her flying-carpet-ish magical device.
In fact, it was the very line → "階段下りたら上の階" triggered it, which quickly extended itself to become a layered but random world. Besides, I wanted to put some turning blades or gears or similar tricks, but my laziness advised me not to. someone who owns Super Mario Maker should go creating such a course!! So I ended up with simplified clocks, and draft-like gears.
For the same reason, I omitted the digit soilders and the paper mice units (flees~).
For decorative wall arts, first they were designed for "keep quite" notices, but somehow I put a frame around. Even just for two of them, I wanted to give more details. Meanwhile, to maintain it's echoing in harmony of the book she's reading, I decided to soft-touch from my favourite painter.
The flying cards -- which were initially books -- were selected partially randomly through a simple script.

After scripting it, I realised the numbers 1-4 I assigned were in a good correspondence: spade = 1 stem; heart = 2 halves; clover = 3 leaves; diamond = 4 sides...
What? Club??? I've been calling it clover since I began to play solitaire on a Win 3.1 (a strong root). -__-||
Final Declaration: I am indeed aware of that it's actually supposed to be a boy interacting with the adorable rainbow-fish. But, I'm neither doing a real fan-art nor am a shota-con. u_u
So that's about a crazy fantasy with laylania. I wish Akiko's "haguruma no Erude (presumably Erde?)" could become a vocalised concept album too! °A°''
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Yesterday, when I saw it, all my nerves were hypered.
Yet it's hard to image Noriko playing BIOHAZARD ... ^^;